According to Article 85 of the Constitution,
smaller conventions of representatives are held according to those representatives'
records and information, and their own tendencies, as well as regarding
the priorities. There they discuss and complete the bills from the government
and the proposals from the representatives or from the Counties' Higher
Councils

The number of the members of each Committee
is proposed and determined by the standing Presiding Board, considering
the country's needs and observing the priorities. Making any change in
the number of the members is also a responsibility of the Presiding Board.
It is necessary that each MP, apart from the head, should be the member
of one of the standing committees.

Committees

Standing Committees

Standing Committees are formed with due
regard to the organizational structures of the country. It may sometimes
happen that some identical Committees are consolidated with the approval
of the Majlis in order to accelerate the execution of the duties assigned
to them. Standing Committees listed below may be increased, when necessary,
with the approval of the Majlis.

Each Deputy should accept membership of
at least one of the following Standing Committees. Article 42 of the Rules
of Procedure of the Majlis mentions those Standing Committees as follows:

Education

Islamic Art, Guidance and Media

Administrative and Recruitment Affairs

Economy, Finance and Cooperation

Plan and Budget

Oil

Industries and Mines

Labor and Social Affairs

Housing and Urban Development, Roads and Transportation

Judicial and Legal Affairs

Defense

Foreign Policy

Councils and Domestic Affairs

Health and Welfare

Post, Telegraph and Energy Affairs

Commerce and Distribution

Agricultural Affairs

Article 88 & 90

Department for Accounting, Budget and Financial Affairs of Majlis

Revolution Organs' Affairs

The Select Committee for the Survey of the Acts / Laws Belonging to the

Pre revolution Period or the Council of the Revolution

Culture and higher Education

Non-Standing Committees

As regards those bills and motions which
cannot be referred to any of the above mentioned Committees because their
relevance to those Committees is not clearly specified and they display
various ambiguous or doubtful aspects, the Majlis Presiding Board can form
a special supervisory Committee (a select or ad hoc Committee) whose members
are selected from the related Committees, and refer those bills and matters
to that Committee, which in turn will report the result to the Majlis after
deliberation.

If there arises a need to deal with exceptional
and important questions necessitating a special Committee to deliberate
them, a Committee shall be formed on the endorsement of the Majlis. Members
of this special Committee (Extraordinary Committee) range from 5 to 11
and are elected directly in the open session by the Deputies through secret
ballot and a relative majority.

Joint Committees

Whenever there is a bill or proposal related
to two different standing Committees, those two Committees hold joint sessions;
and thus a Joint Committee is formed in order to deal with that particular
bill or proposal.

Standing Committee on the
90th Article of the Constitution

This Committee is based on Article 90
of the Constitution. Its main duties are as follows: